| Common Names
| | |
| Common
| Scientific |
| | |
| (true) flies, two-winged flies
| Diptera
|
| acorn worms
| HEMICHORDATA
|
| alder flies
| Megaloptera
|
| amphibians
| Amphibia
|
| ant lions, lacewings
| Neuroptera
|
| ants, bees, sawflies, wasps, parasitic wasps
| Hymenoptera
|
| arrow worms
| CHAETOGNATHA
|
| barnacles
| Thecostraca
|
| beardworms
| POGONOPHORA
|
| beetles
| Coleoptera
|
| birds
| Aves
|
| bivalves
| Bivalvia
|
| blue-green algae, blue-green bacteria
| Cyanobacteria
|
| book-lice, psocids
| Psocoptera
|
| bristle-tails, silver-fish
| Thysanura
|
| bristleworms
| Polychaeta
|
| brittle-stars
| Ophiuroidea
|
| brown algae, seaweeds
| Phaeophyceae
|
| bryophytes
| Bryophyta
|
| butterflies, moths
| Lepidoptera
|
| caddis flies, sedge flies
| Trichoptera
|
| centipedes
| CHILOPODA
|
| charophytes
| Charophyta
|
| chewing lice, biting lice, bird lice
| Mallophaga
|
| chitons
| Polyplacophora
|
| chordates
| CHORDATA
|
| chromophytes
| Chromophyta
|
| chytrids
| Chytridiomycota
|
| ciliates
| Ciliophora
|
| club mosses, quillworts
| Lycophyta
|
| cockroaches, mantids
| Dictyoptera
|
| comb jellies
| CTENOPHORA
|
| Common name
| Taxonomic name
|
| conifers
| Coniferophyta
|
| conodonts
| Conodonta
|
| crabs, lobsters, shrimps, woodlice, amphipods,
| Copepoda
|
| crickets, grasshoppers, locusts
| Orthoptera
|
| cryptomonads
| Cryptophyta
|
| cycads
| Cycadophyta
|
| diatoms
| Bacillariophyeae
|
| dinoflagellates
| Dinoflagellata
|
| dragonflies
| Odonata
|
| earthworms, potworms, sludgeworms
| Oligochaeta
|
| earwigs
| Dermaptera
|
| echinoderms
| ECHINODERMATA
|
| eelworms, roundworms, threadworms
| NEMATODA Free-living
|
| Euglenoids
| Euglenozoa
|
| fairy shrimps
| Branchiopoda
|
| ferns
| Pterophyta
|
| fish
| Pisces
|
| fish lice
| Branchiura
|
| flat-worms
| PLATYHELMINTHES
|
| fleas
| Siphonaptera
|
| flowering plants
| Anthophyta
|
| flukes
| Trematoda
|
| ginkgos
| Ginkgophyta
|
| gnetophytes
| Gnetophyta
|
| golden algae
| Chrysophyceae
|
| green algae, seaweeds
| Chlorophyta
|
| hairworms
| NEMATOMORPHA (=Gordiacea)
|
| harvestmen
| Opiliones
|
| horse-shoeworms
| PHORONIDA
|
| horse-tails
| Sphenophyta
|
| horseshoe crabs
| MEROSTOMATA
|
| hydroids
| Hydrozoa
|
| isopods, seed shrimps
| Malacostraca
|
| jelly-fish
| Scyphozoa
|
| lampreys, hagfish
| Agnatha
|
| lampshells
| BRACHIOPODA
|
| lancelets
| Cephalochordata
|
| leeches
| Hirudinea
|
| lichens
| Lichenized fungi
|
| liverworts
| Hepaticae
|
| mammals
| Mammalia
|
| mayflies
| Ephemeroptera
|
| millipedes
| DIPLOPODA
|
| mites
| Acari
|
| mosses
| Musci
|
| mycorrhiza
| Mycorrhizal fungi
|
| planarians
| Turbellaria
|
| red algae, seaweeds
| Rhodophyta
|
| reptiles
| Reptilia
|
| ribbon worms
| NEMERTINEA (=Rhynchocoela)
|
| rotifers
| ROTIFERA
|
| scorpion flies
| Mecoptera
|
| scorpions
| Scorpionida
|
| sea anemones, corals, sea pens
| Anthozoa
|
| sea cucumbers
| Holothuroidea
|
| sea spiders
| PYCNOGONIDA (=Pantopoda)
|
| sea squirts, salps
| Urochordata
|
| sea-pens
| Crinoidea
|
| sea-urchins
| Echinoidea
|
| sharks, rays
| Chondrichthyes
|
| slime moulds
| Myxomycota (Mycetozoa) *
|
| snails and slugs
| Gastropoda
|
| snake-flies
| Raphidioptera
|
| spiders
| Aranea
|
| sponges
| PORIFERA
|
| springtails
| Collembola
|
| squids, cuttlefish, octopuses, nautiloids
| Cephalopoda
|
| starfish
| Asteroidea
|
| stick insects, leaf insects
| Phasmida
|
| stone flies
| Plecoptera
|
| sucking lice
| Anoplura
|
| tape-worms
| Cestoda
|
| termites
| Isoptera
|
| thrips
| Thysanoptera
|
| true bugs, aphids, scale insects, whitefly, plant-lice, plant-bugs
| Hemiptera
|
| tusk shells
| Scaphopoda
|
| two-pronged bristle-tails
| Diplura
|
| vertebrates
| Vertebrata
|
| waterbears
| TARDIGRADA
|
| web-spinners
| Embioptera
|
| yellow-green algae
| Xanthophyceae
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